If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you know that I love the command line and use a dedicated Thinkpad T420 as my “hacking machine”. While I’m new to Kali, I’ve been a Linux user for a while — dating back to my first-year of university in 2007. I have a pretty strong love-hate relationship with Linux. While I mostly love Linux distros and would gladly use one as my primary work OS, troubleshooting hardware issues between Ubuntu and Apple hardware has caused me some grief in the past.

But I digress.

For a network security course I’m taking, we needed to play around with Nmap and a lab network set-up by our professor at Ryerson. I’ve used many a VPN before, but not with Linux and certainly not with Kali. I kind of expected a GUI like I’ve had in the past with OSX or Windows, and while I’ve realized that you *can *access one:

Next, grab the config file you’d like to use. If you’re in a class, it’s probably provided by your professor or whoever’s providing you with a network to pen test. Otherwise, you can find other config files online to play around with.

You will likely have 2 files provided to you: a config file with the filetype “.opvn”, and a certificate file.

We’re going to add the certificate file and the config file to the equivalent of a Windows config folder in Kali.